Lucy, Lady Gage   Painted by  John Theodore Heins (1697-1756)

Portrait of Lucy, Lady Gage, painted by John Theodore (Dirck) Heins, Sen. (1697-1756) portrait painter of Norwich.  Half-length, in an oyster satin dress and blue wrap, with a feathered headdress, feigned oval.  Signed and dated 'Heins, Fec: 1748-' (lower left) and with identifying inscription (lower right), oil on canvas 29½ x 25 in. (75 x 60.5 cm.).  Provenance: The Rev. Henry S. Gladstone.  Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 22 September 1978, lot 54 (sold £550).  The sitter, who was the daughter of William Knight of Kingerby, Lincoln, and sister and heir of Richard Knight, married Sir Thomas Rookwood Gage, 5th Bt., of Hengrave Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, and of Coldham Hall, Stanningfield, Suffolk on 28 February 1746. She died on 3 September 1781 at the age of 59 and was buried at Hengrave.  Christies  SALE 6829, 25 November 2003 (www.christies.com).

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